European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 thousands attend rally to support abortion Washington up thousands of chanting protesters Many wearing the White and purple of the suffragettes move ment marched from the White House to the Capitol in a huge demonstration in sup port of abortion. Under Clear warm skies on sunday the marchers streamed onto Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the executive mansion proceeded to Constitution Avenue up to Capitol Hill where women s rights activists addressed a rally. Police estimated that 50,000 people participated in the March substantially More than the 36,000 people police said demonstrated in the anti abortion movement s annual March for life protest in january. As the women walked past the White House on sunday the Rev. Jerry Horn 33, who said he represented a group called americans against abortion approached the crowd carrying what he claimed was a human fetus. This is the Choice pro Choice offers Horn said As he shoved the eight Inch object into the faces of the demonstrators who recoiled. Horn was arrested a Short time later when he tried to join the March. Police called in the City s homicide squad to deter mine if the object was a fetus. President Reagan and his wife Nancy were not at the White House. Reagan has frequently stated his opposition to the 1973 supreme court ruling permitting abortion and told the january gathering he supports their cause. Demonstrators carried red coat hangers symbolic of Back Alley abortions. Hundreds of people wore White clothes and purple sashes the garb of protesters who demonstrated for women s voting rights. Some signs read Reagan is pro Back Alley abortion forced pregnancies is in voluntary servitude and when Ron gets pregnant he can  we Are on the move said Eleanor Smeal president of the National organization for women. Abortion is the hottest Issue of the feminist movement and we Are a  feminist Gloria Steinem said this is a vocal visible representation that opposes the criminalization of abortion. We re Here to show majority support for Choice. No govern ment right or left should have the right to interfere with  former rep. Bella Abzug d-n.y., said if the Liberty of someone is taken away the members of the National March for women s lives March Down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. A photo Liberty of All is taken away Barbara Heckman of Lincoln Park pa., said she was there not Only to March for Abor Tion rights but for women s rights. There Are a lot of men Here and Small children. The family is an important part of the women s rights movement she said. A Vazquez a student at the University of Florida in Gainesville said she believes the Reagan administration is trying to re peal Legal abortion. I m Catholic she said. I take this March very seriously. Male dominance Over the female body is wrong and that s exactly what president Reagan is trying to  her Friend Chas ther a student at the University of Maryland said he s walking around with blinders  Navy officer arrested lost Job Over Medvid photos new Orleans a a Navy offi cer says he was placed under arrest and lost his Job because he refused to surrender photographs that could show an impostor was substituted for a soviet Sailor who wanted to defect according to a report published sunday. Navy it. James r. Geltz took pictures of a Man identified As Miroslav Medvid on oct. 29 As he was being escorted to and from an interview with state department officials who were trying to determine if Medvid wanted to defect the times Pic Ayune states item reported. Medvid had twice jumped from a soviet freighter into the Mississippi River near new Orleans in apparent attempts to defect. After the interview however . Officials said Medvid did not want to defect and allowed the ship to leave with him aboard. Critics of the government s action have suggested that the soviets sent an impostor to the interview and say Geltz s photo graphs show that the Man interviewed was not Medvid. Fri specialists have examined the Pic Tures and said they Are inconclusive according to an aide to sen. Jesse Helms r n.c., a critic of the administration s handling of the Case. Two weeks after he took the pictures Geltz Public affairs officer at the naval support activity in new Orleans said he showed them to Belle Chasse jeweler Joseph h. Wayman who had spoken with Medvid on oct. 24. Wayman said he did not recognize the Man in the photos. Geltz then went to his Superior capt. Claude l. Fare who demanded that he sur Render the photos Geltz said. The same Day Geltz said he received a Telephone Call from an aide to Helms head of a committee investigating the Medvid Case saying a congressional subpoena would be issued for the photos. The aide said Geltz could face a charge of obstruct ing Justice if he turned them Over to his Navy Superior. Later that Day after Geltz refused to surrender the photos fare placed him under arrest. Geltz said he later yielded the photo graphs after he was assured copies would be Given to Helms. Geltz said he was subsequently charged with disobeying a Superior s order was relieved of his duties and transferred to an other office. His Appeal of the charge is pending with the Board for the correction of naval re cords. Telephone Calls to the Navy Public affairs office were answered by a recording sunday night. Tennessee Law being challenged in Federal court resister to draft registration barred from College Memphis Tenn. A Tom Vogel s refusal to Register for the draft has kept him out of College for two years but he says his fight with the government has been an education in itself. They be prevented me from going to school but they Haven t stopped me from obtaining an education Vogel said in an interview. I could t have taken this at any College or University. Nothing else could have Given me  Vogel 21, planned to major in political science and history when he was accepted by Memphis state University in 1984, but a newly passed Tennessee Law barred his admission because he refused to Register with the selective service system. He filed suit in . District court in Nashville claiming the state was getting involved in Federal affairs and was violating his constitutional rights. Judge Thomas a. Wiseman upheld the state Law however and Vogel s Case is scheduled to go before a three judge panel of the . 6th circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati on thursday. If you re convicted of murder or rape you can go to school but i did t Register so i can to Vogel said. The Law Vogel challenges was passed in 1984 and bars state universities from admitting male students Over 18 who have not registered for the draft. Irwin Venick a Nashville lawyer handling Vogel s Appeal under the sponsorship of the american civil liberties Union said the Tennessee statute May be unique. I m not aware of any other state that has a Law of this kind he said. Vogel said he refuses to Register because he fears the United states will re Institute the draft which was ended in 1973 in favor of an All Volunteer army. We re moving toward the draft and 1 did t want to wait until the draft happens to speak out against it he said